Two more members of the intelligence community with an opportunity to nail Trump to a tree publicly today - both declined, while simultaneously acknowledging that they don’t really have legal cover to decline. Political nihilism - none of the rules matter anymore because no one has the ability to enforce them.

What I’m saying is, Eric Trump doesn’t give a shit whether you accept an apology, nor is he most likely going to issue one. Do you mean this was a turning point for you in your opinion of him? Because this doesn’t change my opinion of him one bit.

While it was a super fucked up thing for him to say, and he’s a total idiot, I doubt Eric Trump finds your refusal to accept any apology to be a “turning point”.

No no no - you seem to be taking what I’m saying as a disagreement, as in “that won’t happen”. What I’m saying is, I don’t know how any person who’s lived through the last two years could say with any confidence that it WILL happen. I don’t know, and I don’t claim to know. By all rights it should’ve happened…

“Its not that I don’t know what exactly will be the mechanism that triggers his removal. Its that there are so many things that could lead to that that I don’t know exactly how that will happen. I said previously it could be Congress. It might be. It could be a military coup. It could be pressure from financial…

Yes, but isn’t “the system” that you said is working predicated on the exact checks and balances I’m talking about that rely on people doing their jobs?

I hope you’re right but our system working relies on people working, and I haven’t seen any indication yet that the people in question are interested in that.

None of this is, and it’s still happened - that’s kind of my point. I can’t imagine feeling confident enough to make any sort of firm prediction about more or less anything in American politics after the last two years. Trust me that I hope you’re correct, but at this point I’ve been conditioned to believe it when I…

I mean, it’s been clear since well before he was elected that he would not give a single shit about the law as President. Hell, he more or less said it himself a handful of times.

I do - because to the people who’d need to do the impeachment, their job security is more important than America.

I wish I shared your confidence that there would ever be a comeuppance here, but I don’t at all.

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No doubt. It was a dumb thing to do, accomplished nothing, undermined any real message.

No, he doesn’t deserve it. It crossed a line of decency that we should all hold ourselves to.

I just learned of this phenomenon recently, and it still blows my mind that it’s real.

What do you mean “wait until”?

This would be great if it worked, but a considerably larger portion of Americans that I ever would’ve guessed simply don’t give a fuck about things like assault, sexual harrassment, corruption, or dishonesty as long as abortions are illegal.

If they take Lonzo, it will be LaVar’s show.

Are they a cut above?

Enjoy ‘em while you got ‘em.